Resilience or Resistance?

Finding Pith
6 min readJul 15, 2020

How do I find the line between teaching my child to seek self-acceptance in an unjust world and finding and fighting for things that we can change?

Dietmar Rabich / Wikimedia Commons / “Münster, Park Sentmaring — 2014–3969” / CC BY-SA 4.0

Every morning, my son gets a protein shake with a host of nutritional ingredients to help him keep growing. It has been the only thing that we have ever found to keep his weight at the one percent line on the pediatric growth chart. Without it, he loses weight. He loses…

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Finding Pith

I am a writer, mother, scientist, and seeker of a meaningful life. Not necessarily in that order.